Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 979856 - Employee injured in fall from floor joist

Accident Summary Nr: 979856 -- Report ID: 0950411 -- Event Date: 10/02/1990
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
108187113	10/02/1990	1751	0	Structures Group Southwest, Inc. (The)

Abstract: At approximately 12:35 p.m. on October 2, 1990, Employee #1, a carpenter with Structural Group Southwest, Inc., was on a job at a Reynolds Aluminum plant. He had just finished his lunch break and used a 25-ft fixed ladder to access a glue-laminated beam so that he could return to his assigned workspace above the northeast main entrance. He fell from the C-line midspan, falling 16 ft onto a concrete floor and sustaining multiple fractures for which he was hospitalized.

Keywords: FRACTURE, JOIST, CARPENTER, WORK RULES, CONSTRUCTION, FALL, FALL PROTECTION, WALKING ON BEAM

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	108187113			Hospitalized injury	Fracture	Carpenters

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